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Good morning, Brew Daily Show. I'm Neil Freiman. And I'm Toby Howell. Today, OnlyFans is for sale, but does anyone want to buy it?
Then Anthropix Claude is doing some really freaky stuff, like blackmailing researchers. They try to shut it down. It's Tuesday, May 27th. Let's ride. Let's ride.
Good morning, welcome back to the week. It's great to be with you. Let's start today's show in Martha's Vineyard, or actually the frigid waters around the New England island.
Yesterday, British South African endurance athlete named Lewis Pugh became the first person to swim completely around Martha's Vineyard, traversing 62 miles over 12 days in a stunt ahead of the 50th anniversary of Jaws later this summer. He's trying to raise awareness for protecting sharks, which got a pretty bad rap from the movie, which was shot on location on Martha's Vineyard.
Toby, you think he had the Jaws music in his head while swimming around?
He definitely did, because frankly, this swim sounded awful. He said that the cold wind, waves, and distance made it tough. But on top of that, he said, you're constantly looking down into the dark black water and thinking about what may be beneath me. Still, despite his shark jitters, he wanted to call attention to the eco side that is happening, a lot of which can be
traced back to the movie Jaws, something that Steven Spielberg, the director, has himself come to regret. In 2022, Spielberg told a radio host, I truly and to this day regret the decimation of the shark population because of the book and film. So both men, Pew and Spielberg, are out there trying to change public perception of sharks. Pew just got a little wetter and a little colder to do it.
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